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Shivdeen Pandit

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Shivdeen
Prime Minister of Jaipur state
In office
1852–1864
Preceded byThakur Lachman Singh
Succeeded byPandit Vishambhardeen
In office
1852 – 1864 November
Personal details
BornRewa, Madhya Pradesh
Died1864
Jaipur, Rajasthan
NationalityIndian

Pandit Shivdeen was a Minister of Kingdom of Amber and also its Prime Minister from 1852 to 1864.[1]

Early life

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Shivdeen was born at Rewa in a Kanyakubja Brahmin family. He attended Agra College and later was appointed as guardian of Sawai Ram Singh II in 1935.[1][2]

Political career

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Pandit Shivdeen ki Haweli, Jaipur, Rajasthan

Shivdeen was an enlightened student of the Agra College of very high education and great administrative capacity. From guardianship of the Maharaja he rose gradually as Civil Judge, and Musahib or Prime Minister. His strict fiddelity and uprightness procured him an implicit confidence of his master, and he was so popular and amiable that throughout the long period of his incumbency of the office not a single individual in the State had reason to complain that he had received a wrong at the hand of Pandit Shivdeen. He guided the State vessel in the dubious ocean of the mutiny against the surges and whirlpools of political warfare and brought her safely to anchor in the port.[1] In 1844, Sawai Ram Singh II founded the Maharaja College, Jaipur with Shivdeen as its first principle. After Sawai Ram Singh II ascended to the throne in 1852, he appointed his guardian Shivdeen as Mohatmim Tehsil or Revenue commissioner. After a couple of years, Shivdeen was appointed as Prime Minister. He was succeeded by his son Vishambhar Deen.[3][4][5]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Jawala Sahai (1902). The Loyal Rajputana, Or, a Description of the Services of the Rajputana Princes to the British Government Rendered During the Mutiny of 1857.
  2. ^ Susanne Hoeber Rudolf (1984). Essays on Rajputana.
  3. ^ Vibhuti Sachdev (2002). Building Jaipur. Reaktion Books. ISBN 978-1-86189-137-2.
  4. ^ Sanwat Raj Bhansali (1992). Legal system in India, Vol2. University Book House. ISBN 978-81-85488-05-9.
  5. ^ Susanne Hoeber Rudolf (1984). Essays on Rajputana.